For the past two decades, euthanasia/assisted-suicide ideologues have worked overtime to conflate palliative care the medical alleviation of pain and other distressing symptoms of serious illness¯with intentionally ending the life of the patient.

Recent news in respect to court proceedings against Mr. David Scott Mathers for the assisted suicide of his partner, Eva Griffith in July 2009, deserve scrutiny; as do comments from Dr. Nitschke and from Michael Duffy in the Sydney Morning Herald.

First it needs to be noted that Mr. Mathers was convicted of manslaughter. The criminal code of NSW was upheld; there was no ‘judicial activism’ in that decision.